United Kingdom
Imperial Tobacco’s factory in Nottingham recently closed its doors for good as workers left the site for the final time. The cigarette maker first revealed plans to exit the site in March 2014, which at the time employed 540 staff. The facility had the capacity to produce 36 billion cigarettes per year.
The union Unite said the closure, along with Japanese Tobacco International’s decision to shut a site in Northern Ireland, spells the end of centuries of tobacco manufacturing in the UK.